hamburger wrote:"luett un' luett" - that's what the longshoremen ordered in the little pubs along the harbour (the street was called "vorsetzen")when they came off shift . it referred to a small "schnapps' (usually caraway-flavoured) and a small beer(usually a quarter of a liter). translated it would mean "little and little".. this was before the war, and three sets usually cost one mark (reichsmark), so it was common to invite two friends to partake in the refreshments (unless one was particularly thirsty or had worked under dusty conditions in which case the parched throat required extra attention). hbg
Well that is very like the Scottish custom of drinking a "hauf 'n' a hauf"...(rhymes with "off") which means a half-and-a-half.
This was a measure of whisky (originally half a gill, but the standard pub measure today is about a quarter of that) and a half-pint of heavy-gravity beer.
The modern equivalent would be termed beer with whisky chasers.
This drinking style was common in the west of Scotland in the 1950s. The fair city of Glasgow was famous for its drunks, especially on a Friday night.
Whoops, grammar. The fair city of Glasgow was famous for its drunks, which were seen in large numbers on a Friday night.
McT
